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American Journalism Review,  November, 2002  by Prochnau, William

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The last time Rem Rieder asked me to do a story for AJR I was standing on the side of a grumbling volcano in Ecuador. But the eruption had blown far to the northwest in Los Angeles with the last belch of the Chandlers' Los Angeles Times as it fell to Chicago's Tribune Co.

This time I was hacking my way through a mangrove forest--well, hacking the way aging journalists do it--on the edge of the Coral Sea. Rieder wanted a tome on 25 years in the life of American newspapers. I was tempted to tell him that American newspapers had only one serious use in the mangroves. Then I saw the ...

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